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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015
Plans call for cutting 70
highway alders by spring
adding that the department
doesn’t yet know whether it will
contract out the labor.
By ERICK BENGEL
EO Media Group
CANNON BEACH — Be-
Moving forward
fore March 15, the Oregon
ODOT approached the City
Department of Transportation
SODQVWRFXWGRZQWKH¿UVWRI Council in mid-2014 to let the
about 200 dead and dying alder city know of its plans, as a
trees along U.S. Highway 101, “way for us to be transparent
between Cannon Beach’s north with the community,” Jablon-
entrance and Sunset Boulevard. ski said.
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Initially, the city asked its
phase of a three-phrase tree-thin- arborist, Will Caplinger, to inde-
ning project, said Bill Jablonski, pendently review the problem-
manager of ODOT District 1.
atic trees. But, because ODOT
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about 200 of the roughly 5,000 with each other, that review
trees near that stretch of highway never happened, Public Works
for removal, marking them with Director Dan Grassick said.
light blue dots. The trees may
“ODOT did not pursue the
pose a threat to driv-
project, and so the
ers, especially the
decision was made
trees with branches ‘I think
not to spend the re-
that lean precarious-
sources unnecessar-
ly over the road, he it’s a
ily,” he said.
said. Once ODOT
But now ODOT
solution in is pursuing
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the proj-
a safety hazard, the search of a ect, Jablonski said.
department became
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legally liable for any problem.’
tends to renew its
accidents that may
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occur as a result of
Grassick and City
Morgan Manager
their continued pres-
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former Cannon Beach
ence in the highway
Kucera.
mayor
corridor.
ODOT is open to
Because the trees
feedback from the
are in a state highway right of city and its residents, Jablonski
way, ODOT can legally elimi- said. If people want ODOT to
nate them without obtaining a offset the loss by planting new
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county’s ordinance that might well do that, he said.
require a permit — a fact that
“I think (ODOT) should be
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Department of Justice last fall.
they take out,” said former May-
“I was verifying that the law or Mike Morgan, who works as
does exist,” he said. “ODOT has Astoria’s interim city planner.
the right to take out danger trees
However, since the project
in the right of way.”
involves a mile-long stretch of
Another 70 trees are slated trees that ODOT believes could
for removal in 2016, and the re- collapse onto the highway, there
mainder of the 200 targeted trees isn’t likely to be much negotia-
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trees removed may be less than Jablonski said.
200 but will not exceed 200, he
“We recognize that there is a
said.
sensitivity (to) the trees’ remov-
“We certainly have an ob- al, but we also have an obliga-
ligation to the people who are tion to the motoring public to
motorists that we remove the remove those trees,” he said. “If
danger trees,” Jablonski said, anything, we’re doing a courte-
ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group
About a mile-long corridor along U.S. Highway 101 between Cannon Beach’s north entrance and Sunset Boulevard may
be thinned out by the Oregon Department of Transportation. Highway officials plan to remove 200 dead and dying trees.
An estimated 5,000 trees line the corridor.
ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group
A blue dot is displayed on twin alder trees on the west side of U.S. Highway 101 near
the Sunset Boulevard entrance. ODOT has marked about 200 trees for possible removal
from along the highway; the removal will be done in three phases, beginning before
March 15 and ending in 2017.
sy to the city to let them know
what our plan is.”
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ahead of the nesting period for
migratory birds that begins April
1. That’s a rule every ODOT
project has to abide by — oth-
erwise, the department must hire
a biologist to see if there’s any
nesting material in the trees, and
that can be expensive, Jablonski
said.
The city will “provide appro-
priate notice” to Cannon Beach
residents when the time comes,
Grassick said.
A political issue
When ODOT came before
the council last year, “We were
very opposed to just the whole-
sale removal of those alders,”
Morgan said.
He noted that during the
wind and rain storms of early
February no trees or branches
had fallen onto the highway.
“The proof is in the pudding.
If the trees aren’t causing a prob-
lem, they don’t need to be cut,”
he said. “I think it’s a solution in
search of a problem.”
Residents who live near the
highway tend to view those trees
as a “visual and noise buffer,” he
said.
Shawn LaMunyon and his
wife, Sarah McAllister, who
own a double lot east of the
highway, are two such residents.
Asked what he thinks of
ODOT’s proposal, LaMunyon
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happen.”
Though he understands that
some thinning may be necessary to
improve highway safety, he feels
the 200-tree project is too large.
Morgan said Cannon Beach
citizens “could and should”
contact state Rep. Deborah
Boone, D-Cannon Beach,
and state Sen. Betsy Johnson,
D-Scappoose, and “make it a
political issue.”
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